The Doctor's Stoppage MMA Blog

 After a marathon of a card last week, we have a smaller PPV, but it should be pretty fun by and large. Last week in London was a bit of a slog to get through, but it paid off at the end with the return of Tom Aspinall. He's really the best thing going in the heavyweight division these days with Stipe Miocic and Jon Jones probably in the last few fights of their careers. Ciryl Gane has lost a lot of his luster with his last few losses and both Tai Tuivasa and Curtis Blaydes have suffered some set backs. Sergei Pavlovich is the only other guy right now and making him vs Aspinall is really the only fight anyone cares about other than Jones vs Stipe at the top. The potential for both Jones and Stipe to retire after their fight in November makes booking it tricky though because you don't want to have Aspinall vs Pavlovich in December and then hear that the winner of Jones/Stipe is retiring in January. There's no real rush to book it though with Aspinall still seeing how his bod

 We're back with another UFC card in London and it's kind of a strangely put together event. We're getting the return of Tom Aspinall who I am a huge fan of. It will be almost a year to the day and luckily for him, the heavyweight division doesn't move very fast, so he hasn't really lost a ton of positioning at the top of the division. The card behind him is what is sort of strange. There's a lot of pretty decent fights, but nothing really stands out. Molly McCann is in the co-main and while she's popular, especially in London, the kinds of opponents she can be competitive with just aren't really co-main level fighters. I don't know if this card will be awesome, but it certainly shouldn't be bad either. Just to be clear,  my picks will be in the bolded font , and  the real results will be listed next to it in italics  after the fight is official. Official bets will be at the bottom. Bets are now being officially tracked at  BetMMA  as well.  Jafe

 After what will probably go down as one of the best cards of 2023, we are following it up with UFC Vegas 77. It is certainly an event and I think that is probably the best thing I could say about it. With the amount of events the UFC is putting on every year, you're going to get some lackluster events, but even then, usually the main event is intriguing enough. This doesn't even give us that. We have someone making their promotional debut in the co-main event, so that is really all you need to know. I'm not going to waste any more brain capacity on an intro, let's just do it.  Just to be clear,  my picks will be in the bolded font , and  the real results will be listed next to it in italics  after the fight is official. Official bets will be at the bottom. Bets are now being officially tracked at  BetMMA  as well.  Ailin Perez defeats Ashlee Evans-Smith                    Result:          In a card that is mostly messy and/or weird fights, this one may take the cake ri

 We had a weird week last week. Ultimately, we ended up breaking even, so I can't really complain about it too much, but it was a bit of an unfortunate ending. We're back this week with international fight week and also my first week of my grad program. It has certainly been kicking my ass so far, but I should be able to get this in. Just to be clear,  my picks will be in the bolded font , and  the real results will be listed next to it in italics  after the fight is official. Official bets will be at the bottom. Bets are now being officially tracked at  BetMMA  as well. Kamuela Kirk defeats Esteban Ribovics               Result:          A bit of a weird one to kick off the night. This is an interesting matchup because both men are similar in a lot of ways. Both guys have above average power, poor standing defense, and below average cardio. Standing, I think Kirk is a tad more technical offensively. However, I refer Ribovics' power and I think his cardio may be just a smal